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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by kroltan on Friday June 30, 2023 @03:14PM (#36540633)
There is a name that we used, for a few precious years, that describes most digital advertisement nowadays: spyware!

(And uh, yes, adware, but that's usually the programs themselves. A website with intrusive ads is adware, but the ads are spywares)

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Re:YouTube is testing a more aggressive approach against ad ... by BLKNSLVR on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:17PM (#36543216)
Exactly. The ads aren't just passive images or video, they're also actively trying to weasel information out of your personal device.

Fits the definition of spyware.

The larger problem is that this behaviour has been normalised to such a degree that "the world wide web" as a whole could be described as spyware.

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